In theory, quantum computing should be faster once hardware that’s faster is available, and only if the problem you’re trying to solve is in BQP, which isn’t that much of what computers are used for. Progress has been slow, but continuous, so the gap between simulating a quantum computer and actually using one has been shrinking. In October last year, Google’s Willow chip was verified to have achieved quantum advantage, i.e. done something that could be checked externally faster than a classical computer could have. It was only 13,000x faster, and in one specific task, which isn’t really enough to change the world, but ten or twenty years ago it was still thought to be fairly plausible that the physics might not be right and even if the practical problems were solved, they still wouldn’t work.

Even if quantum computers get ludicrously fast, they’re still not going to be especially common, and they’ll be a piece of specialised equipment, more like an electron microscope than a home PC. Most people just don’t need to do any stuff that’s in BQP, so don’t care if they can do it faster. If you’re a company, university or government body that needs to do one of the very specific things that will be faster, though, they’ll be indispensable.

Edit: Of particular relevance to the article, at the moment, SHA256, the hashing algorithm underpinning Bitcoin, is considered to be quantum-resistant. Someone might discover some new maths that means a quantum computer can break it faster than a classical computer, but at the moment, even though people have looked into it, there’s no indication that it’s possible, so it should never become easier to break Bitcoin etc. with a quantum computer than a classical one.

We had a mini CD adaptor in the house when I was a child (basically a plastic ring with clips in the cutout so it’d hold a mini CD and make it the same size as a regular CD), but everything that took CDs that we owned had an indentation for a mini CD already or had you put the disk on the spindle yourself. The two exceptions were later on, a Nintendo Wii, which would have worked as it played Gamecube disks and they were the same size, and a slot-loading car stereo, but we didn’t have any audio mini CDs, so I’ve no idea if that would have worked better or worse with the adapter.

Sometimes, political ideologies aren’t the same thing as the word used to name them would suggest.

I’ve never actually needed primer to paint PLA unless the paint I was using was terrible, and wouldn’t have stuck to the primer very well, either. Tamiya’s acrylics have been entirely issue-free for me, both with a brush, or thinned and airbrushed, and they’re not that expensive, but I’ve also had acceptable results with random fifteen-year-old tubes of really cheap acrylics that were sold more as a children’s toy than a serious paint (although a lot of these tubes had gone bad in that time) and with Humbrol and Revel acrylics and enamels (although their acrylics come in pots that don’t seal very well, so it’s not that uncommon for them to be already cured when you first open them - if you’re buying liquid acrylics for model painting, Tamiya is a better choice).

I guess I wasn’t counting a slot-loading drive as a regular drive.

A mini CD works in a regular CD or DVD drive. Usually there’ll be a special recess to k line them up with the centre of the disc tray, but you don’t really even need that.

It’s not the ‘Linux on’ subsystem, it’s the ‘Linux on Windows’ subsystem, so it’d have to be Linux on Windows Windows Subsystem, which would be silly. It can’t have a colon in it as some command-line tools take a subsystem as an argument, and traditionally, Windows command-line tools have used colons the same way Unix has used equals, i.e. to separate an argument name from its value, and parsing that gets harder when you’re expecting colons in the value, too.

Windows has subsystems. They’re called Windows Subsystems. This one’s for Linux. However you slice it, the initialism has to have WS in it.

They didn’t get the memo when the theocratic faction assassinated all the leftists that had been their allies during the revolution so that they could make a right-wing theocracy instead of something leftist. The CIA-backed regime was removed, so because tankies have ‘read theory’ and the theory they’ve read says revolutions always go well, Iran must surely be a socialist state well on its way to becoming a communist utopia.

If the ferrite is filtering a hum you can hear, it’s also filtering parts of your music that you can hear because a ferrite just dampens a frequency range and can’t tell what is and isn’t supposed to be there.

Given the number of times I’ve had to triage issues caused by mispackaged Debian builds, I’m baffled that Debian maintainers are under the impression that their users generally know they’re supposed to report problems to the package maintainers rather than upstream. Maybe people who’ve been using Debian since the naughties do, but for the average user, Debian seems to be crafted specifically to generate duplicate upstream issue reports.

KDE uses plenty of Qt Quick, so there’s still JS-type webby stuff going on.

In 1 Clavdivs, his character’s name had anus in it, so maybe try an image search for hairy anus?

The kids name the monsters after things they’ve recently encountered in D&D, and coincidentally, the monsters tend to have some powers in common with the D&D enemies even if their physical form is way off.

Downstream packagers are under no obligation not to do dumb things that break things for users and make the users blame the upstream developers.

You’re thinking of ITV. It’s Graham Norton on Fridays on the BBC.

apt was mentioned, so this might actually be Debian’s problem. Python doesn’t support being installed without its standard library, but (unless they’ve decided to stop being dumb since I last checked) Debian’s python package only contains part of the standard library, and the rest is split into other optional packages. If you find software that says its only dependency is python, on Debian-derived distros, it might not work without installing extra packages, and if the software’s maintainer doesn’t use Debian and know about this, then their installation instructions won’t cover it.

But all the interesting people are in the computer, the same place as the bad stuff is.

The original point is that junta is exclusively used in the news to refer to ones the government doesn’t like, and other juntas that are allied get called governments, so the term gets negative connotations and can be used to imply bad things while technically the text’s literal meaning is neutral, so impartiality complaints won’t stick.

And the context was a sentence that was correct if you used OED sense 1, or MW sense 1, but you decided to parse it as MW sense 2b and then complain that the sentence was incorrect.